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Originally Posted by pwalker8
To get back to this particular point, I'm sure most Tolkien fans know that for The Silmarillion, the first of the posthumously published Tolkien add on's put out by Christopher Tolkien, he was aided by Guy Gavriel Kay, a fine writer in his own right. I wouldn't be incredibly surprised to find out that Kay gave the book that polish that made it a lot more readable as a pure narrative than the other ones.
Now that Christopher Tolkien, who is now in his mid 90's, has relinquished control of the Tolkien literary estate, many have expressed a hope that the family will open up to either allowing, or perhaps hiring writers to novelize many of the earlier parts of the Tolkien universe, or at least open up the material for movies and TV. It's going to be very interesting to see if Amazon's miniseries dips into that material for their LOTR prequel mini-series, or if much of it is made up whole cloth. One hopes the former, but we will see.
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I agree, and love the writing of Guy Gavriel Kay.
The last one or two releases from the Tolkien Estate, have been by another family member ... one of Christopher's children or grandchildren I think.
His (oldest??) son is also a fiction writer, and while seemingly now back in the good books with his dad, Christopher, had an estrangement from him, due to some dispute regarding the legacy. I recall, that he felt they should have been more engaged with Peter Jackson and the public etc, rather than take the standoff no comment position they did, especially after the success of the movies.
Hopefully, if that son is not now written out of the picture, we might see something. I seem to recall he was something like a lawyer, now turned writer.